Senior Data Platform Engineer, Snowflake

Job Description:

Job Title: Senior Data Platform Engineer, Snowflake

Location: Remote | USA, Canada
Reports to: SVP, Engineering

Employment Type: Full-time

This is a new vacancy

About the Role:

Own the hands-on engineering of JD Power's Snowflake data platform. Responsible for translating the Platform Lead's architecture and governance direction into a production-grade, automated, and observable Snowflake environment that supports analytics, product, and AI/ML workloads across the enterprise.

In this role, you will:

Platform Architecture & Engineering

• Design, implement, and evolve Snowflake account, warehouse, database, and object architecture.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform to manage Snowflake environments, security models, and platform configurations.
• Build and operate CI/CD pipelines for database and platform deployments using tools such as Schemachange, Liquibase, or equivalent technologies.
• Optimize platform performance through query tuning, clustering strategies, search optimization, materialized views, and workload management.

Security & Access Management

• Design and maintain scalable role-based access control (RBAC) frameworks that support least-privilege access principles.
• Implement and manage security controls, including masking policies, row access policies, object tagging, and network security configurations.
• Integrate Snowflake with enterprise identity providers to support SSO, SCIM provisioning, service account management, and credential lifecycle processes.
• Partner with Information Security, Privacy, and Compliance teams to support audit readiness and regulatory requirements.

Data Integration & Platform Enablement

• Design and operate scalable data ingestion and integration solutions using Snowpipe, Snowpipe Streaming, Streams and Tasks, Kafka Connect, and related technologies.
• Manage and support data integration platforms such as Fivetran, Airbyte, or equivalent connector frameworks.
• Implement external tables, Apache Iceberg integrations, and lakehouse interoperability patterns as needed.
• Integrate Snowflake with orchestration, transformation, and observability platforms, including Airflow, dbt Cloud, and monitoring solutions.

Operational Excellence

• Monitor platform reliability, performance, data freshness, and cost efficiency while driving continuous improvement initiatives.
• Build observability frameworks, dashboards, alerting capabilities, and incident response processes.
• Create and maintain architectural standards, technical documentation, operational runbooks, and implementation best practices.
• Enable and support Analytics Engineering, Data Science, Product Engineering, and business stakeholders through platform guidance and technical expertise.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with Data Governance, Analytics Engineering, and application teams to ensure the platform supports enterprise data management, security, and analytics objectives.
• Contribute to platform standards, architectural decisions, and long-term roadmap planning for Snowflake and related data technologies.

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of professional data platform, data engineering, or data infrastructure experience.
• 3+ years of hands-on Snowflake experience at production scale (not pilot/POC).
• Demonstrated expertise in Snowflake RBAC design, warehouse sizing and cost governance, performance tuning, and security features.
• Strong SQL — able to read and optimize a query profile.
• Python for tooling, automation, and pipelines.
• Production IaC experience — Terraform required; Snowflake provider strongly preferred.
• Database CI/CD using Schemachange, Liquibase, dbt, or equivalent change-management tooling.
• Cloud fluency in AWS — networking, IAM, storage, and Snowflake integration points.
• Ingestion experience with Snowpipe, Streams/Tasks, Kafka, and/or Fivetran/Airbyte.
• Communication — able to author decision records and runbooks; able to influence without authority.

Preferred Qualifications

• SnowPro Advanced certification (Architect, Data Engineer, or Administrator).
• Hands-on dbt and modern Analytics Engineering experience.
• Experience with Snowflake Horizon Catalog, Polaris, Collibra, or Alation.
• Streaming and CDC: Kafka, Debezium, Snowpipe Streaming, Dynamic Tables.
• Iceberg / lakehouse architecture.
• Data observability tooling (Monte Carlo, Bigeye, Datadog).
• Automotive, financial services, insurance, or regulated consumer-data experience.
• AI/ML workloads on Snowflake (Cortex, Snowpark, feature stores).

This position has a starting salary range of $120,000 – $175,000 USD / $110,000 to $140,000 CAD per year. The range represents what we reasonably and in good faith expect to pay for the role at the time of posting. An employee’s pay within the range is determined by a number of factors, including relevant skills, education, qualifications, experience, performance, business or organizational needs, and geographic location.

Why Join JD Power

JD Power powers auto-related decisions through proprietary data, advanced analytics, deep industry expertise, and workflows that connect insight to action. Operating across North America, Europe, and Australia, we help customers make better decisions and achieve better outcomes.

As a virtual-first company, we offer flexible work arrangements, opportunities for learning and development, and a culture centered on the Values that guide how we work every day.

· We power our customers’ success. Everything we do is focused on helping customers make better decisions and achieve better outcomes.

· We are innovative, collaborative, and grounded in data. We combine advanced analytics with human expertise to deliver insight that holds up in the real world.

· We make things easy. We turn complexity into clarity so teams can act faster and with confidence.

· We get it done. We focus on execution, accountability, and results.

· We start with trust and prove it every day. Independence, integrity, and credibility are the foundation of our work.

Equal Opportunity & Accommodations

JD Power is committed to employing a diverse workforce. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability.

JD Power is committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process for individuals with disabilities or other protected needs under applicable local laws. Please contact [email protected] for accommodation request.

Data Privacy

JD Power does not disclose your personal data to unauthorized third parties. However, as a global corporation consisting of multiple affiliated companies in various countries, JD Power has international sites and JD Power uses resources located throughout the world. JD Power may from time to time also use third parties to act on JD Power’s behalf. You agree to the fact that to the extent necessary your personal data may be transferred and/or disclosed to any company within JD Power group of companies as well as to third parties acting on JD Power’s behalf, including also transfers to servers and databases outside the country where you provided JD Power with your personal data. Such transfers may include for example transfers and/or disclosures outside the European Economic Area and in the United States of America. If you are a California or United Kingdom resident, additional disclosures about the information we collect and how we use that information can be found by clicking here.

Applications

Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the country where employment is offered. JD Power does not provide employment sponsorship for this position.

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